In the past decade, cloud computing has emerged as a leading technology that is now used widely across different industries. Depending on the business need, different cloud computing models emerged. Enterprise applications now run on the cloud platform. As the requirements grew, there was a need for a hybrid cloud computing model. Cloud applications are now required to be cloud independent, and they should be able to run on any cloud. This was the main motivation of this book.
This book mainly focuses on hybrid cloud platforms. It introduces the reader to the hybrid cloud environment and teaches how to develop effective, robust, and flexible hybrid cloud applications. It talks about the migration techniques, best practices, and troubleshooting skills required to effectively manage a hybrid cloud platform.
If you are an IT professional, developer, or a DevOps engineer looking to develop and manage your applications on the hybrid cloud platform, then this book is for you. This book will also benefit beginners to hybrid cloud computing. Developers looking to build applications using AWS or OpenStack services will benefit from this book.
Chapter 1, Introducing Hybrid Clouds, will cover the basic concepts of cloud computing. You will get familiar with the terminology used in cloud computing, types of cloud, and the advantages that cloud offers.
Chapter 2, Exploring AWS Cloud, will make you familiar with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and the various features, such as EC2 and EBS, that it offers. You will learn how to leverage the AWS technology in your day-to-day project requirements.
Chapter 3, Exploring OpenStack Private Cloud, will help you learn about the open source OpenStack platform. You will get familiar with various OpenStack components, such as Nova, Cinder, and Neutron.
Chapter 4, Developing AWS Cloud Applications, will teach you to set up the development environment for building AWS applications and develop AWS applications using the SDKs provided by Amazon.
Chapter 5, Developing OpenStack Applications, will enable you to start building OpenStack applications using the OpenStack SDK and REST APIs.
Chapter 6, Cloud Migration, will discuss migrating your applications across clouds. It talks about various considerations to be made while migrating applications.
Chapter 7, Hybrid Cloud Best Practices, will talk about the best practices to be followed while developing and working with hybrid cloud environments.
Chapter 8, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Hybrid Cloud, will discuss various monitoring and troubleshooting techniques for AWS and OpenStack clouds.
Chapter 9, Hybrid Cloud Security, will discuss the security implications to be considered on a hybrid cloud environment (AWS and OpenStack).
Although this book is suitable for any IT professional who wishes to explore the hybrid cloud platform and develop applications, to get the most out of this book, the reader is expected to know basics of cloud computing and object oriented programming. Familiarity with C# or Python will be very helpful to understand the code examples in this book.
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